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| Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter and Google partner to bring more tweets into Google search results, rolling out on mobile in the US today and desktop soon — A new way to discover Tweets — We're excited to team up with Google to bring Twitter's unique, real-time content to Google's search results.
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PC Magazine, StreetInsider.com, The Official Google Blog, Wall Street Journal, Slashdot, Inc.com, SiliconBeat, Fone Arena, SiliconANGLE, ITworld.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Re/code, Variety, Engadget, Adweek, UT San Diego, TIME, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, GeekWire, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and BetaBoston. Tweets: @marshallk. See also Mediagazer
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Tweets get more prominent placement in Google results after Google-Twitter deal; Twitter doesn't earn directly off display but will gain new traffic — The Google-Twitter Deal Goes Live, Giving Tweets Prominent Placement In Google's Results — The deal between Google and Twitter to bring …
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Christopher S. Penn Blog, USA Today, Fortune, Phandroid, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Android Police, Marketing Land, Android and Me, International Business Times and SlashGear. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@martinbeck
| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Google to unveil new photo service, independent of Google+, at I/O later this month — Google Is Close to Unveiling New Web Photo Service — Google Inc. is set to reveal an online picture sharing and storage service that will no longer be part of the Google+ social network, people familiar with the plans said.
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The Verge, Phandroid, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, 9to5Google, BGR, Engadget, Android Central, Droid Life and Android and Me
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook: Apple Watch in stores ‘by June’, in talks for Apple Pay in China — During his trip last week across China, Apple CEO Tim Cook held a meeting at Apple's China headquarters with several employees in attendance, according to sources with knowledge of the briefing.
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SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, MacRumors, InvestorPlace, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech Times, Redmond Pie, TodaysiPhone.com, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo and iMore. Thanks:@apollozac
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon names Maria Renz as shadow to Jeff Bezos, or more formally, technical adviser to CEO, the first woman to hold the role — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Names First Woman Executive to Coveted Top Role — For more than 15 years, one role at Amazon has stood out as perhaps the most coveted … | Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Proper Google Maps app appears on Android Wear via latest phone app update — With the latest update to Google Maps on your phone, Android Wear gains some mapping functionality. — After updating to Google Maps version 9.9 on your phone — which brings a neat new transparent status bar …
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Android Police, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Android Police, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet and Engadget
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
WordPress parent Automattic acquires WooCommerce, maker of a popular e-commerce WordPress plugin, sources say for more than $30M — WordPress Parent Automattic Buys WooCommerce, a Shopping Tool for Web Publishers — Last year Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, raised $160 million.
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WooThemes, Matt Mullenweg, Mark Forrester, WordPress Tavern, internetretailer.com, theWHIR.com, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Tweets: @fredericl. See also Mediagazer
| Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: |
You Can Now Use ‘Netflix for Torrents’ Popcorn Time in Your Browser — It's over a year since Popcorn Time burst on to the scene, allowing you to stream torrents rather than download them. It's had its ups and downs—but now you can use it in your browser.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Adblock Plus launches Adblock Browser: Firefox for Android with built-in ad blocking — Adblock Plus today launched Adblock Browser for Android. Currently in beta, the company's first browser was created by taking the open source Firefox for Android and including Adblock Plus out-of-the-box.
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ZDNet, Business Insider, BGR and Forbes
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Switch Raises $35 Million In Strategic Funding To Expand Its Cloud-Based Phone System — Just four months after Switch Communications made its cloud-based communications suite generally available, the company has raised another $35 million in funding to get customers signed up.
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VentureBeat, Work-Bench, VoIPWatch and PE Hub Blog
Tweets: @asenkut, @googleventures and @pmarca
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Logjam crypto vulnerability affects tens of thousands of web and mail servers, browsers being updated with fix — HTTPS-crippling attack threatens tens of thousands of Web and mail servers — Diffie-Hellman downgrade weakness allows attackers to intercept encrypted data.
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The Logjam Attack, Wall Street Journal, The Register and Computerworld
Tweets: @matthew_d_green and @gmillard
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest unveils new ad pricing models and first video ad unit, a Promoted Pin called Cinematic Pin, which animates as the user scrolls down or taps on it — Pinterest Unveils Its First Video-Like Ad And New Ad Pricing Models — Advertisers are going to have a lot more to work with on Pinterest starting today.
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg Business: |
Yahoo shares drop 7.62% on potential changes to IRS's spinoff rules, possibly complicating efforts to exit a stake in Alibaba — Yahoo Shares Drop on Potential Changes to IRS's Spinoff Rules — Yahoo! Inc. shares declined 7.5 percent on reports that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service …
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, Bloomberg View, BuzzFeed, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @richardrubindc
| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Contract between Sony Music and Spotify shows how streaming rates are calculated and details yearly advances and most-favored-nation clause for Sony Music — This was Sony Music's contract with Spotify — Over the last year the music industry has been in flux as artists, labels …
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Agence France-Presse, UPROXX, Digital Music News, Engadget, The FADER, TIME, hypebot and WebProNews
Tweets: @caseyjohnston, @tvoti, @jimcarrollotr, @musicbizworld, @jonrussell, @alftirado, @poptastic and @eriqgardner
See also Mediagazer| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Meteor, a startup that provides tools for developing mobile and web apps using Javascript, raises $20M led by Matrix Partners — Meteor Raises $20M To Build The One JavaScript Stack To Rule Them All — The competitive landscape for app development tool providers keeps getting tighter …
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VentureBeat, Meteor Blog and PE Hub Blog
| Chris Brook / Threatpost: |
St. Louis Federal Reserve confirms DNS hijack of affiliated sites in April, including FRED, its economic database, plus archival and geographic databases — St. Louis Federal Reserve Falls Victim To DNS Hijack — The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank confirmed this week that it fell victim to a DNS hijack last month.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Topher Conway Becomes Co-Managing Partner Of SV Angel As David Lee Steps Down — Big changes are afoot at one of the premier angel investing firms, as David Lee is stepping down from SV Angel after multiple years as managing partner at the firm. With his departure, Topher Conway will be moving … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Facebook expands free Messenger video calling to almost every country — Facebook has rolled out video calling on its Messenger app to more countries around the world, following the introduction of the feature in 18 countries last month. — “We're happy to share we've now rolled …
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David Marcus, SlashGear and SocialTimes
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Tone, an experimental Chrome extension for sharing links with nearby computers using only sound — Google Tone is a Chrome extension for sharing URLs with nearby computers using sound — Google has launched a new experimental Chrome extension that lets you transmit the URL …
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Google Research Blog, PCWorld, The Next Web, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Mashable, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Verge and eWeek
| Steven Norton / Wall Street Journal: |
Mike Kail, hired by Yahoo last summer as CIO, has left the company in the wake of a suit filed by Netflix; Laurie Mann, SVP of search products, named new CIO — Yahoo CIO Mike Kail No Longer With Company — Mike Kail, chief information officer and senior vice president of infrastructure at Yahoo Inc., has left the company.
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| Emily Stephenson / Reuters: |
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau orders PayPal to pay $25M in fines and refunds for signing users up for its online credit service without permission — US regulator says PayPal to pay $25 mln over credit product problems — The U.S. consumer financial watchdog on Tuesday accused PayPal …
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| Reuters: |
Apple renews contract with TomTom for digital maps, TomTom's shares rise — TomTom shares jump after Apple renews digital maps contract — Dutch navigation systems company TomTom NV said Apple Inc would continue to buy its digital maps, giving a vote confidence that sent the Dutch company's shares … | PYMNTS.com: |
Mastercard introduces Send, a P2P payment service that works with most debit cards and other services like Western Union, to transfer funds within 30 minutes — MasterCard Launches (Almost) Real Time Payments — MasterCard has entered the realm of real-time payments.
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Global Hub, ZDNet, Fortune, Engadget, The Next Web, Quartz, Bank Innovation and USA Today
| Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Meraki founders raise $25M led by Andreessen Horowitz for IoT sensor startup Samsara — Meraki founders score $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz for sensor startup — Two founders who helped big companies get a handle on their Wi-Fi networks and later sold their startup to Cisco for $1.2 billion …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out touch-first test versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Android phones; devices must run KitKat 4.4.x or higher, have at least 1GB RAM — Microsoft rolls out touch-first Office apps preview for Android phones — Summary:Microsoft is rolling out test versions of its standalone … Sponsor Posts
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